Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON.


week or so ago that real estate agent IN
here at thai time, said he had
received as many rs twenty-five applications
q month for dwelling houses in Alexandria
nv ueople in this city who wished 10 rent
such houses, but that there were none SUCH
there To-day "A real estate agent OF TINS
city ioli the GAzETrEs correspondent thf
he had received applications for both inc
rent and purchase OF houses in Alexandra,
but could not supply them. He said q capt
talist here, aware Of this unsuppiled want,
hnd Informed him that if Alexandrlans
would agree 10 put in $50 000 he would guar
a;tee the investment of st least $50O,ooo
in the erection OF modern dwelling houses
in Alexandria, and was certain they would
all be purchased or rented by the time they
we're COMPLETED. He said the houses want
ed were such rs would contain from SIX to
cirht rooms, but with all the modern conVe-
niencss, au:, that would rent at from $50 TO
$50 q month, IA government clerks mere
conld afford that much. A plenty OF such
bousas. he said, and more rapid and ire
nuent communication with Washington,
would in short time add greatly TO Alex
andria's population. He also said The pre-
vailing idea that there is no money in Alex
andris for investment in the erection oil
houses. or for any other purpose, is enhfeIy
erroneous, and was so proved by MS own
experience, az he himself had recently IN
vested n good deal of Alexandra money III
real estate in this city, and had loaned more
OH such security. The right sort OF dwell
inc houses in Alexandria, he said, would
nav from ten to twelve per cent on the in-
vestment.
A Virginia democrat here to-day who al
tended the farmers meeting near Marshall,
Fauouier county, in his State, last Sntur
day, says between five and six hundred
were present, ana that speeches were made
bv Gen. ]. G. Field, Col. Robert Beverley,
and Messrs. A. G. Smith and Bradford Bey-
er!ey. The speeches, he says, were in favor
of nominating farmers for the legislature,
and complained of poor crops and small
prices, and Of high railroad freights. The
gentleman referred to says the democrats
| of the whole upper part of Fauquier county
seem 10 be very loose in their party attach
| ment. and that if those of Che other parts
are like them in that respect the democratic
| majority there will be very small next No
vember. He says that while the object OF
the managers of the farmers movement
NAV not be to ipjure the democratic party,
he is induced to think, from what he saw
and heard last Saturday, that that will be its
I
practical effect.
A gentleman who arrived here this morn
ing from Capon Springs, says that last Sat
urday the wife of Major Godloe, of the ma
rine service, the daughter 0i Senator Beck.
slipped while descending into the pool in a
| bath house, and would have drowned had
| it not been that some worllmen heard her
screams. and, breaking in the door, rescued
her when iis was almost extinct.
The President drove in from his country
residence nj the naual hour this morning.
and WAS nj his desk in his Office at the
| White House until this afternoon, engaged
| in his usual roatine business.
| An Alexandria county republican, hero
to day, says hat Mr.. James II. Lob, the
superintendent OF the Columbia Brick Com
pany's works, in that county, where large
nuua Der OF colored rs well as white hands
are employed, has determined TO be can
| didate fer the straight out republican nomi-
| nation Tor the legislature in Alexandria
county and city, and that he will have
strong support.
Gen. W. Fl. Payne, Of Warrenton, whose
return from Europe has been already an
nounced, when in this city last week, said
he had travelled IN Scotland, England,
France and Switzerland that England was
abroad and that Paris was most attractive
city in the world, and the people there had
more personal liberty than here, bnt that
he returned home mere pleased with his
own country than ever, aud that the only
| reason why no did not eat his breakfast in
| Warranton the morning after the evening
he arrived at New York was the delay To
which he was subjected 1T the Customs
House
The President and all the members OF his
Cabinet will attend the centennial celebra-
| ton of the adoption of the Constitution in
Philadelphia next month.
| The Department Of State has made no
peremptory demand upon tho Spanish gov
eminent for the release Of the Rev u. i.
| Doane, who was arrested and imprisoned in
| the Caroline Islands, charged vita melting
the natives to resist the authority OF the
| Governor Of That Island The case is being
| investigated by the Department, and in the
meantime the u. $. Consul at Manila,
where Mr. Doanc is imprisoned, has been
instructed 10 nse his good Offices IN behalf
of the prisoner.
A gentleman WHO recently had an inter
view with Secretary Bayard on the subject
Of civil service reform, says the Secretary
told him that where, either at home or
abroad, ne haii lolnu men uoilb ehtir u"tJ
he had invited them to continue giving their
assistance in carrying On The business oil the
United States without any regard to their
political proclivities, and that this was the
policy anG practice of the present govern
ment, it would continue TO be.
Indiana people now in The city say news
paper reports to the contrary, there will bs
plenty OF money in the treasury Of that
State for nil required purposes, and that the
reason the benevolent fund there seems
short though it is not in reality, is the fact
that the republican House OF Delegates
would not meet with the democratic Senate
for the purpose of passing the necessary APP
preparation bills, though they did meet for
the purpose of passing bill for the payment
of their own per diem.
There is good deal OF talk here about
a report to the effect that republican who
was removed for cause from one OF the de-
no -fpoante hera some tima npO and went